Radio-over-fiber technologies for emerging wireless systems

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Novak, Dalma ^a   Waterhouse, Rodney B ^a   Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai ^b   Lim, Christina ^b   Gamage, Prasanna A ^b   Clark, Thomas R ^c   Dennis, Michael L ^c   Nanzer, Jeffrey A ^c  

^a Pharad LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

60 GHz wireless; Microwave photonics; Millimeter wave communications; Radio over fiber; RF over Fiber systems

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIO-OVER-FIBER; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

60 GHZ WIRELESS; BROADBAND WIRELESS SIGNALS; FIBER SYSTEMS; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; MILLIMETER-WAVE COMMUNICATION; RADIO-OVER-FIBER TECHNOLOGY; RADIO-OVER-FIBER TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK;

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 85047156779     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2015.2504107     Document Type: Article

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